Inserting hex characters in the output

Hey,

I want to insert a character 0x0a after a string in my output to file. To look something like this:

Code:

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one0atwo0athree

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I tried inserting a newline, that's what 0a is, but it write two bites instead of one. I asigned '\n' to an unsigned char and then print it, it doesn't work.

The source:

Code:

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#include<iostream>
#include <cstdio>

using namespace std;

int
main (void)
{
        char str1[] = "one", str2[] = "two";

        char c = 0xa;

        FILE *out;
    out = fopen("h:/c/HexTest.txt", "w");

        fprintf(out, "%s%c%s%c", str1, c, str2, c);

        return 0;
}

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here's the current output, in ASCII:

Code:

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one
two

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Hex: 6F 6E 65 0D 0A 74 77 6F 0D 0A.
I only want the 0A , without 0D.

Is that doable?

thanks.

The problem you are having is because your file was opened in text mode and the character represented as hex 0xA gets converted in text mode into the two characters you are seeing. You need to open the file in binary mode.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main (void)
{
    char str1[] = "one", str2[] = "two";
    char c = 0xA;
    ofstream out("h:/c/HexTest.txt", ios::out|ios::binary);

    if( out.is_open() )
        out << str1 << c << str2 << c;

    return 0;
}

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I missed that. I adjusted my code, but it's still doing the same thing.

Code:

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int
main (void)
{
        char str1[] = "one", str2[] = "two";

        unsigned char c = '\n';

        FILE *out;
    out = fopen("h:/c/HexTest.bin", "wb");
       
        fwrite(&str1,sizeof(char), sizeof(str1), out);

        fwrite(&c,1, 1, out);

        return 0;
}

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and output:

Code:

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6F 6E65 00 0A

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. it adds the extra byte of 00.

Code:

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fwrite(&str1,sizeof(char), sizeof(str1), out);

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What is sizeof(str1)? Probably 4 which is not what you want. I think you meant strlen(str1) which would be 3. With 4 instead of 3, you would get the null terminating character output to the file which is that 0x00 that you are seeing. And I think sizeof(char) is guaranteed to be 1 so you can just replace sizeof(char) with 1.

> fwrite(&str1,sizeof(char), sizeof(str1), out);
Use strlen(), not sizeof().
The sizeof includes the \0 at the end of the array.

That's exactly what it was thanks guys.

AS.